Delegates and participants arriving to attend the G20 meetings in India till November 2023 will be exempted from the mandatory 2 per cent random Covid-19 testing at the airports, a top government official said.
Delegates and participants arriving to attend the G20 meetings in India till November 2023 will be exempted from the mandatory 2 per cent random Covid-19 testing at the airports, a top government official said.
After the Centre re-started random testing of incoming passengers amid the rising scare of Covid-19 in several countries, a total of 39 international travellers have been found Covid positive across different airports of the country.
Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said if anybody found Covid-19 positive, the sample should be sent for genome testing at the designated INSACOG laboratory network.
With random coronavirus testing of international arriving passengers set to start from Saturday, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has said that airlines' crew members will have to bring such identified passengers to the testing facility at the airport.